Famous banned books are cultural flashpoints that push us to think critically about the harms, experiences and consequences of our human experiences. Famous banned books disappear from shelves in ...

Mark Herron isn’t exactly a media lawyer. His specialty is discrimination and employment rights, and most of his cases involve mistreatment in the workplace stemming from gender, race, or disability ...

No two states have been more consistently in the spotlight for book banning than Texas and Florida. Last year, the Texas legislature passed HB 900, a law that would have forced booksellers and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image of banned books A collection of banned books. (Photo courtesy Kennedy Library) According to a new report by a state ...

I was telling a reporter about book bans as I got into the Uber. “PEN America has reported exactly 3,362 book bans in public schools during the 2022–23 school year,” I said. “There were over a ...

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one. By Alexandra Alter Book bans in public schools continued to surge in the first half of this school ...

Another battle in the culture war is expected at tonight's meeting of the Lucia Mar Unified School District Board of Trustees. This time, two members of the community are pushing for two books to be ...

Book bans continue to surge. According to the American Library Association (ALA), the number of documented attempts to censor books continues to far exceed the numbers before 2020. Additionally, ...

Stephen King, Ellen Hopkins, Sarah J. Maas, Jodi Picoult, and Yũsei Matsui topped the list of authors whose books were most frequently banned in the U.S. in the last school year, according to a new ...